Day Thirty-nine

Nothing is drying


7:38PM Monday
It's hot today. I'm in the studio. I pulled out the air conditioner that was in my little storage area. It's on wheels, a portable unit. I put the hose out the window and covered up the remainder of the window with canvas. It's on, giving off cool air, but I can't tell if it's working because I haven't been outside since this morning. I do know that nothing is drying because it's humid. So I spent a lot of time today watching paint dry. In the winter, it's great because the heat is so high and dry, everything dries real fast and I can just keep moving along, but not this summer weather. I think I managed to get a lot done today, more than I thought.
This morning, I dropped off my stuff at the studio and then left to walk to the post office, which was nice. I got some stamps and dropped off some letters and some movies to Netflix. I think we sent back Spinal Tap. I added a couple more Fasbinder movies to our list on Netflix. After seeing the Fassbinder film with Douglas, "Fox and His Friends", I want to watch more.
I spoke with my friend Justin today. He's in Germany. Justin gave me 6 boxes of old Artforum magazines from the 60's and early 70's. I have four of the boxes here and two were sent back because the US Postal system is shit. The other two are being sent back to me. It is the best gift, these old Artforums. I love reading the old reviews and looking at the lay-out of the magazine before Quark and Photoshop existed. All the ads and the lay-outs are done by hand. It's fun to see the mistakes. It's also interesting to see ads for galleries that don't exist anymore, and for that matter, artists that don't exist anymore. It reminds you that everything is so fleeting. Everything.
I put on the radio today in the studio, Air America, to listen to what was going on in the world of politics. I used to listen to Air America a lot, but now that Al Franken is gone, I listen less. He was the funniest and the best and I hope he wins the Senate seat he's running for in Minnesota. Can you imagine how fun the news would be if Al actually became a Senator?
Yesterday, Jonathan and I went to play ping-pong at this place in the west village we go to when we feel like ping-pong. It's a great place - a basement with pool tables, a bar and ping pong tables. Jonathan won best out of five sets, which is a nice change (for him!). I think he won because I had a beer and he had a coconut mocachino from Dunkin Donuts. I was too relaxed and he kicked my ass. We made tuna steaks for dinner because I wanted to feel like I was on the island still (boo hoo).
That's it for today. It's too hot to sit here and type and I want to clean up the mess I made in the studio today. Enjoy your monday night.